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Water Act 2000
sec.39Matters for regulation
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### sec.39 Matters for regulation
For the purpose of planning for the sustainable management, use and allocation of water, a regulation may do the following—
reserve unallocated water for a part of the State or for particular water to which no water plan applies;
prescribe the processes for releasing unallocated water, including through the grant or sale of a water entitlement;
prescribe processes and criteria for establishing the elements of proposed water allocations;
prescribe water allocation dealing rules applying to whole of the State;
prescribe the processes for granting a seasonal water assignment for a water allocation;
prescribe the types of works that are to be regulated as acceptable development or assessable development;
prescribe the requirements for the holders of resource operations licences and distribution operations licences in collecting and providing information to the chief executive.
s 39 sub 2011 No. 40 s 13 ; 2014 No. 64 ss 67 (3) , 68 (amd 2016 No. 60 s 15 (2) – (3) )
amd 2018 No. 24 s 238
- (a) reserve unallocated water for a part of the State or for particular water to which no water plan applies;
- (b) prescribe the processes for releasing unallocated water, including through the grant or sale of a water entitlement;
- (c) prescribe processes and criteria for establishing the elements of proposed water allocations;
- (d) prescribe water allocation dealing rules applying to whole of the State;
- (e) prescribe the processes for granting a seasonal water assignment for a water allocation;
- (f) prescribe the types of works that are to be regulated as acceptable development or assessable development;
- (g) prescribe the requirements for the holders of resource operations licences and distribution operations licences in collecting and providing information to the chief executive.